Terminal cannot use SVG files in backgroundImage, icon (xaml limitation?)

[MikeTheGreat]

Over at UsingJsonSettings.md, in the section about adding a background image it directs me to download the .SVG image in Step 1

Step 4 then says to use the .JPG: ( "backgroundImage": "ms-appdata:///Roaming/openlogo.jpg", ) but this doesn't display the image in the Terminal.

Changing Step 4 to use the .SVG also doesn't display the image

Changing the file to be an actual .JPG (downloaded from the Debian logo page ) causes the image to appear.

The docs definitely need to be tweaked :) (I'm not sure if .SVG is supposed to work or not, otherwise I'd do a PR to offer a fix)

[DHowett-MSFT]

It should probably work.

[djsavvy]

Just to counter @DHowett-MSFT, using an SVG icon does not in fact work. I'm guessing y'all are aware of this already, but I just want to make sure the latest comment on this thread reflects the current status.

@MikeTheGreat are you still interested/willing to make a PR for SVG support for icon/background files?

[MikeTheGreat]

Thanks for the shout-out, @djsavvy :)

I'm busy until after August 8th so feel free to dig in on this if it's looking interesting to you.

After that I'd like to dig in on #5506 first, I think. (No promises there, either :) )

[DHowett]

@djsavvy Just to be clear, I meant "Yeah this should probably be made to work" :smile:

[marcelwgn]

I'm afraid, supporting SVGs might not be that trivial due to the UWP Platform behaving quite strangely around them (e.g https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/825). When testing SVGs, the results were completely broken:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Test.svg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Microsoft_logo.svg

There might not be much we can do to support this at this point I'm afraid beside looking for other ways to render SVGs beside the UWP Image control...